Blender 2.8.20 2.8.3, 2.9 - Hair Doesn't Render With Eevee when STRIP is on

Support Particles and Physics Simulations
#1

Blender 2.8.3 Hair Doesn’t Render With Eevee when STRIP is on
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No preview, no rendering. I’ve tried 2.8.2, 2.8.3, and 2.9, the same problem. It only renders when I switch to STRAND, but it’s of no use since all hair width information is lost.

The same hair renders fine in Blender 2.8.0. I’m on Windows 10 and I recently chatted with somebody who doesn’t have any problems with B 2.8.3, but he is on Linux.

This is really weird. I’ve been searching for weeks and cannot find anything. Any thoughts?
I like 2.8.3 and 2.9, but this hair problem makes me go back to 2.8 every time I need to render hair.

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#2

OK guys, if you ever get this problem, I figured it out. It was my AMD video card. I’ve downloaded the latest drivers, and it renders fine now.

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#3

I have an Nvidia card and this was happening to me too. Realized that it had nothing to do with my graphics card but the ‘Diameter of root’ & scale setting in the hair shape panel. Increased it and it’s rendering the strip hair.
Putting it here just in case someone has the same issue.

#4

I have a plane with a simple hair particle and hair does not show on view port. It only shows when I go to PARTICLE EDIT…or if I go to WIREFRAME mode, otherwise the hair is not shown neither rendering. I check same file in 2.83.4 and works perfect. This problem is just in Blender 2.9. Is it just me? Or am I missing out some new strange setting introduced in 2.9 ? :blush:

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#5

No doubt there is a glitch in 2.9, hair is not rendering or showing in Eevee. I can only see it in wireframe mode. Same file launched in 2.83.4 and it works nicely. I can render the hair in cycles but it can not been seen in the viewport…it displays a few weird triangles that seems to extend to the infinite. Hope it get solved in newer updates.

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#6

Yes,. I also facing this issue. In Blender 2.9. When I add hair particle it extends to infinite… It should get fixed I was worried that it’s my hardware problem. They should fix this issue…

#7

Problem continues in 2.90.1…no hair in Eevee :frowning:

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#8

Could you explain how you updated the drivers? Im kinda new to windows, been on osx for 17 years. I only get black hairs no matter what i do, tried strand and strip and both render black. Test using simple hair material. Tested both Hair BSDF and Principle Hair BSDF.

Im using Ryzen 7 with 1660Ti

EDIT
ow i see, hair shader isnt supported in EEVEE